Great video! very informative! For those 4x4 owner don't buy cheap or not reliable brand of snatch strap. Always choose a reliable brand. Like Miolle brand strap , An amazing recovery tool for any off road vehicle. But also extremely useful for a two wheel drive auto stuck in the snow, Sand ,or mud. Easy to use and stores simply in it's carry bag in the trunk or tool box. The quality is 100%! Service from the company is excellent. Love this tool!
This is all well & good -- but what about the high percentage of actual cars that get stuck (in mud or slide off the road during ice/snow storms)??!! Where is best place to hook up recovery straps to a sedan or smaller vehicle that is more common to get stuck??
I had to wrap a strap around the rim of the car. There was NOWHERE I could attach to due to the snow and ice and design of the car. 2001 pontiac bonneville
Tighten the shackle pin tight. Do not let it loose. If it gets tight after a pull use an adjustable wrench or a rod through the hole in the pin tab. This is what that hole is for. Leaving it loose will deform and compromise the shackle. I am amazed that just because someone makes a RU-vid video they consider themselves an expert. Please viewers, remember RU-vid is not a credential. It is an opinion. Common sense and lack of ignorance rules.
I enjoyed the video and there was a lot of good information here for the beginner and seasoned veteran alike. I don't subscribe to the backing off of a bow shackle a quarter turn or so, but it will not hurt in a recovery situation. If you're doing any type of rigging, however you do not back off! There is a reason there's a hole in your PIN, to insert a screwdriver through and loosen it if it gets too tight. Well done. Stay safe on the trails.
What about connecting the strap to the back of the pulling vehicle without a shackle, just using the tow hitch pin? I have heard it can bend the pin, but I have never heard of it breaking. I ask because if you don't have a shackle handy, you might want to sacrifice the pin, to get unstuck. Thoughts?
Jmichael Isbell that works awesome, even with 1” rope never bent a pin and have yanked 7500 lb trucks that are hung up with a 4000 lb truck hitting the end at 25 kmph, power on . And eliminates all the metal he has between the pin and the rope
You mentioned not using a d ring that isn’t colored. I bought rhino recovery straps that came with d rings off Amazon for around $80. They are not colored. Are they not good?
Good advise, but bad to see a lot of the recovery vehicles reversing when snatching. This is the weakest direction for diffs to go and can definitely damage them when shocked.. It's best to recover a vehicle with the recovery vehicle moving forward.
Did not cover pulling a sedan or regular pickup out of a ditch. Also, much better to have the pulling vehicle going forward; not backwards--easier on drivetrain.
A local was killed here douing that recently. You don't even use dampeners ? But dampeners are near useless anyway. Why not produce one like these, seems much better - Snap Trap by Ditch Hitch. Anyone could get one made by the local upholsterer with a big sewing machine. Safer than than most other systems.
It's kind of interesting how you don't see more half ton 3/4 ton pickups like we have over here in the United States especially here in the Midwest I would like to bring down my mud truck which is a 2005 GMC 1500 with a 6-inch Lift and mud tires and see how it would do compared to some of the commercial off-roaders that you see on TV down there
Drew Tibert Australia doesn't allow anything more then 50mm of lift which is like 2 inches which is why you don't see jeeps and trucks on 40s like you do in Canada and the U.S. from what I read they will impound your car if you have too much lift.😞
@@ryancasey3914 Even 40's is getting kinda old in the U.S. It's quite some time ago now that I've seen guys running 52" tires off road. It's getting ridiculous in some places.
Glad to see that you know everything. But I hate to tell you that I saw a bow shackle break while I was in Moab a few years ago. The owner had used it for a long time and somehow had damaged it. When it got a hard pull from a old military deuce and a half it busted the shackle clean off the vehicle and flung it past the deuce. The bubba rope was still in excellent condition.
Ruth less not necessarily true he is correct in what he said and the force is not pulling on the threads and there is not vibration so a quarter turn or even a half turn wouldnt do much
